Salinas breaks all-time temperature records

8:33 PM,
Jan. 17, 2014

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For an inkling of how much trouble we're in with the hot and dry weather, all you had to do was step outside Friday into the warm, sunny weather in Salinas - reminiscent of August in Los Angeles more than January on the Central Coast.

If you were trapped in an office today, the temperature hit an unseasonable 85 degrees at the Salinas Airport, according to Logan Johnson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. It was the hottest Jan. 17 ever in Salinas.